EP1111905A2 - Procédé et appareil de formation de points demi-teintes - Google Patents

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EP1111905A2
EP1111905A2 EP00127152A EP00127152A EP1111905A2 EP 1111905 A2 EP1111905 A2 EP 1111905A2 EP 00127152 A EP00127152 A EP 00127152A EP 00127152 A EP00127152 A EP 00127152A EP 1111905 A2 EP1111905 A2 EP 1111905A2
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    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/40—Picture signal circuits
    • H04N1/405—Halftoning, i.e. converting the picture signal of a continuous-tone original into a corresponding signal showing only two levels
    • H04N1/4055—Halftoning, i.e. converting the picture signal of a continuous-tone original into a corresponding signal showing only two levels producing a clustered dots or a size modulated halftone pattern

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  • the present invention relates to a technology for forming halftone dots used in printing.
  • an original multi-tone image is converted into halftone images for primary ink colors, and these halftone images are then used to produce a print image.
  • Halftone dots are generally used in the halftoning process for converting the original image into halftone images.
  • AM halftone dots Conventional halftone dots (so-called AM halftone dots) are regularly arranged at certain intervals in a matrix fashion.
  • the image density is expressed in terms of the total area of the halftone dots per unit area.
  • the regular arrangement of AM halftone dots is fixed at all times, and the number of black pixels that constitute one halftone dot increases as the level of the multi-tone image signal increases.
  • 'pixel' refers to one unit of recording in an image recorder. For example, in an image recorder that exposes photosensitive film or a printing plate using laser beams, one light spot of a laser beam corresponds to one pixel.
  • FM screening a halftone method called FM screening.
  • the image density is increased not by increasing the halftone dot size but by increasing the number of small dots, which are called FM dots.
  • FM screening the above-mentioned various problems occurring in connection with AM halftone dots are reduced.
  • FM screening also has the following problems:
  • An object of the present invention is to provide halftone dots having printing performance that is more desirable, in at least some terms, than the conventional halftone dots, as well as to provide a printing technology using these halftone dots.
  • each halftone dot is randomly placed, and a halftone dot area rate at which half of the halftone dots join with their adjacent halftone dots in an image area having a uniform image density is set to a value larger than 50%.
  • a halftone dot area rate at which half of the halftone dots join with their adjacent halftone dots in an image area having a uniform image density is set to a value larger than 50%.
  • halftone dot cells each of which includes one halftone dot have various irregular shapes. Smooth images will be reproduced with these halftone dots.
  • the present invention may be implemented in various forms such as: halftone dots, a halftone dot forming method and apparatus, a printing method and apparatus, a computer program to implement these methods and apparatus functions, a computer program product of the computer program, and data signals embodied in a carrier wave including the computer program.
EP00127152A 1999-12-24 2000-12-12 Procédé et appareil de formation de points demi-teintes Expired - Lifetime EP1111905B1 (fr)

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